FOSDEM 2009
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[edit] Introduction
FOSDEM is probably one of the largest gatherings of Open Source Developers and Projects in Europe. It will take place on Saturday and Sunday, 7+8 February 2009 in Brussels, Belgium.
This time, the MySQL Project will be present at various levels:
- We will have a Project Stand (one table) on both days, which we will share with the OpenSolaris community. It is located in Building AW.
- We will have a MySQL Developer Room, with a packed schedule of talks about MySQL and related projects. Each session will last for 45 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. The MySQL Developer Room will only be open on Sunday, 8th of February, from 9:00-17:00. The FOSDEM organizers granted us room AW1.126 with a capacity of 72 seats (in the building "AW"). It is equipped with a video projector with VGA cable and Internet connectivity (wifi A and B only, no wired). The slides are available on the Wiki page.
- Lenz Grimmer has been invited to give a talk about "MySQL High Availability Solutions" in the main conference track, which has been scheduled for Sunday, 11:00-11:45 in room Janson. Here's in interview with Lenz about his session. The slides are available from here (PDF, 310kB)
- Lenz will also give a lightning talk about "Why you should use Bazaar for maintaining your OSS project" on Saturday, 15:20. Here is a PDF (300kB) of his slides.
[edit] Pictures, Blogs and Articles
[edit] Articles
- http://www.datanews.be/nl/news/90-15-22410/uittocht-mysql-top.html
- http://www.datanews.be/fr/news/90-62-22420/mysql-totalement-decapitee.html
- http://www.gulli.com/news/fosdem-2009-zweiter-bericht-2009-02-08/
[edit] Blogs
- http://blogs.sun.com/MySQL/entry/fosdem_2009_a_summary
- http://www.jurriaanpersyn.com/archives/2009/02/12/database-sharding-at-netlog-with-mysql-and-php/
- http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2009/02/10/fosdem-09-a-visual-and-verbal-report/
- http://blogs.sun.com/datacharmer/entry/fosdem_2009_boosting_performance_with
- http://philippeback.be/2009/02/mysql-room-roadmap-qa-recent-developments-at-sun/
- http://blog.some-abstract-type.com/2009/02/feedback-on-mysql-cluster-talk-at.html
- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OlindataMysqlBlog/~3/0Lob7xSfIos/
- http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/monitoring-mysql
- http://www.jurriaanpersyn.com/archives/2009/02/09/database-sharding-at-netlog-fosdem-talk-slides/
- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OlindataMysqlBlog/~3/1h3LbmJ8MO4/
- http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2009/02/07/fosdem-sunday-1315-1415-qa-on-recent-developments-at-sun-mysql-roadmap/
- http://www.honeysoftware.it/sleto/blog/2009/02/06/leaving-to-brussels-for-fosdem-09/
- http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2009/02/02/fosdem-see-you-in-brussels-on-sat-sun-7-822009/
- http://blogs.sun.com/datacharmer/entry/getting_ready_for_fosdem
- http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/2009/01/fosdem-9-days-from-now.html
- http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/how-popular-open-source-project
- http://www.lenzg.org/archives/240-Schedule-of-the-MySQL-Developer-Room-at-FOSDEM-2009-finalized-and-published.html
- http://www.lenzg.org/archives/238-Back-from-vacation-news-from-the-MySQL-Community-Team.html
- http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/2009/01/talking-at-fosdem-7-8-februari-mysql.html
- http://blogs.sun.com/datacharmer/entry/talks_wanted_for_fosdem_2009
[edit] Pictures/Videos
- Lenz Grimmer's pictures on Flickr
- Kaj Arnö's pictures on Picasa
- YouTube: Jack Adams talks to MySQL Expert Walter Heck
[edit] Call for participation
The organizers are looking for your support and contribution! In addition to employees from Sun/MySQL, we would also like to encourage and invite members of the MySQL Community to contribute to making the MySQL project's presence a success. Here is how you can help:
[edit] Record/transcribe sessions
For people that could not make it to FOSDEM or any of the sessions, it would be nice to be able to provide video recordings or transcriptions (e.g. live blogging) from these talks. We're looking for volunteers to record the sessions! If you have a video camera or are an expert blogger, we'd like to hear from you.
[edit] Help us manning the project stand
We are looking for MySQL users that are willing and excited to talk about MySQL to other users and would like to assist us with manning our project desk. Your task would be to talk with other users and developers about all things MySQL, hand out merchandise (in case we get some) and marketing material as well as providing them with additional useful information (e.g. links to further information, contact information).
If you plan to attend FOSDEM and could spare at least two hours, consider helping us to man the table! We've set up a quick registration form in which you can leave your name, contact information and times you would be available. We will then get back to you about further details. Thank you!
[edit] Contact / Mailing list
To facilitate the organization and for further discussion, please join our public Community mailing list!